15-11-18 Thursday - Avocets

Quite mild, rather grey and overcast but at least it's dry.  Light winds.

Bewick's Swans, Red-crested Pochard
Cattle Egrets, Great White Egrets
Merlin
Avocets, Jack Snipe
Short-eared Owl
Yellow-browed Warbler
Water Pipit, Siskin

Kingfisher in Eastville Park (Martin Tayler)

BRISTOL

15-11-18 Black-headed Gull diving? Eastville (Rich Scantlebury)

Eastville Park:
2 Tawny Owl, Dipper on the lake.
Mute Swan, lots Mallard, 2 Grey Heron, 8 Cormorant, 7 Moorhen, c.30 BH Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 3
Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 5 Goldcrest.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

Stonechat in Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Inglestone Common, 16:30:
1 Short-eared Owl

15-11-18 Reed Bunting at Aust (Chris Snook)

Aust Warth:
Short-eared Owl, Kestrel, Reed Bunting

New Passage/Northwick:
Barnacle Goose - thought by the observer to be wild rather than feral.

Northwick Warth:
Merlin.


NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
64 Wigeon, 11 Shoveler, 23 Teal, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Avocet (foreshore), 10 Lapwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 m. Blackcap.

Weston-Super-Mare:
2 Chiffchaff, 2-3 Goldcrest, 3 Redwing. 1 Grey Wagtail (over Plumley Park).


BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
3 Buzzard, 70 Common Gull, 2 Raven, 30 Sky Lark, pr. Stonechat, 6 Pied Wagtail, 40 Meadow Pipit, 60 Corn Bunting, 40 Yellowhammer.

Peregrine at Blagdon Lake (Terri Borash)

Green Sandpiper and Redshank at the Chew Dam (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
2 Bewick's Swans (Hollow Brook), 2 Red-crested Pochard, 6 Pintail (Herriotts), 1 Shelduck, 4 Goldeneye, 3 Goosander, 8 Little Grebe, 3 Black-necked Grebe, 9 Cattle Egret (3 HG & rest in the cattle field opposite Villice), 11 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 9 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 2 Water Rail (HG & Herriotts), 2 Common Snipe, 1 Jack Snipe (Stratford), 5 Black-tailed Godwit (2 Stratford bay & 3 HG), 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper (Woodford), 1 Redshank (Dam), 1 Dunlin (flying with Lapwing), 347 Lapwing (Stratford Bay - counted the photograph), 7 GBB Gull, 200+ Common Gull, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher (Herriotts), 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Peregrine, 11 Jackdaw, 3 Raven, 4 Jay, mixed flock of 20+ tits (Coal, LTT, Blue & Great), 4 Cetti's Warbler, 4+ Goldcrest (Moreton), 60+ Starling (HG), 2 Mistle Thrush (Woodford), 15+ Redwing, 5 Fieldfare (Woodford orchard), 2 Stonechat (Moreton & HG), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Water Pipit (Moreton), 6 + Meadow Pipit (Moreton). 20+ Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch (Woodford), 10+ Linnet, 2 Siskin (Moreton), 5 Reed Bunting.

Cattle Egret at Chew (Ian Stapp)

Out of Avon:
Yellow-browed Warbler in Glos, near Cam & Dursley Railway Station, 1.5 miles NNE of Cam, GL11 5DW..


Reports: Paul Bowerman, Peter Coslett, Dominic Godfrey, Adrian Hockey, Henry Kirkwood, Richard Scantlebury, Chris Snook, Ian Stapp, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG